Polish Briefing: „The merger of Orlen and Lotos is a chance”
What goes on in Poland on the 10th of July.
What goes on in Poland on the 10th of July.
PKN ORLEN has just filed a formal application for the European Commission’s approval of its proposed acquisition of LOTOS Group. The completion of the process would result in a single strong internally integrated entity with international potential, whose position in the oil supply market would be even more prominent.
Grupa Lotos and Rosneft Oil Company signed a contract for deliveries from 6,4 to 12,6 million tons of oil to Poland last week. The agreement is valid until the end of 2020. According to Paweł Poprawa, an energy market expert from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, this decision will not change […]
According to BiznesAlert.pl, even the Germans bring oil from outside of Russia via the Gdańsk oil terminal today. Although the Russian blend of REBCO will still be needed by refiners for technological reasons, diversification is progressing. Grupa Lotos reports that 40 percent of deliveries in the first quarter of 2018 came from outside of Russia. […]
Information about the merger PKN Orlen and Grupa LOTOS electrified the observers and experts of the energy market. In the meantime, this is just the beginning of the road to creating a fuel giant. Is antitrust law going to prevent it? – writes Piotr Stępiński, editor of BiznesAlert.pl.
What goes on in Poland on the 28th of February.